From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 24 19:37:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84310106566C for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:37:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexbestms@uni-muenster.de) Received: from SECMAIL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (SECMAIL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE [128.176.192.141]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF0F8FC1F for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:37:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by SECMAIL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7572FBF423 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:37:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so1727294gxk.13 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:37:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.245.68 with SMTP id lt4mr5700555qcb.71.1277408255930; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:37:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.215.196 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:37:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:37:35 +0200 Message-ID: From: Alexander Best To: utisoft@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharing code between the various *BSDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:37:39 -0000 On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > Politics... too bad politics get in the way of progress. :( > > Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote. There's a bug report on > it! > > On 21 Jun 2010 23:12, "Alexander Best" wrote: > > hi there, > > i can't remember where i read this the other day, but i found this to > be a great idea. basically the idea was to have one code pool which > all the *bsd flavours share and also to which every *bsd committer has > access and can make changes. especially code in /bin, /sbin, usr/bin, > /usr/sbin or /usr/share (probably other places too) would benefit from > this a lot. right now most of the work that gets done in one of these > places by lets say dragonfly won't make it into freebsd or netbsd for > a long time. or what's even worse: sometimes people document problems > or bugs which have already been fixed in some other *bsd. if somebody > fixes the problem that's just wasted time because it's been done > beforehand. > > would this be even possible or not at all? > > -- > Alexander Best > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Alexander Best